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Towards an Understanding of Olfactory Computation

This video was recorded at 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Granada 2011. Olfaction is a fascinating sensory modality, for it deals with complex stimuli (usually complex mixtures of chemical analytes) and generates singular percepts (coffee, jasmin, bread etc), that remain stable over wide ranges of intensities, noise and input composition. Furthermore, olfactory systems accomplish these pattern recognition feats in only very few layers of processing. I will summarize experimental results on computation in a small olfactory system, focusing on the representation of such stimuli, on circuit dynamics, synchronization, learning rules and mechanisms of homeostatic regulation of activity.

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: December 19, 2016
Author:: Gilles Laurent, Max Plank Institute for Brain Research, Max Planck Institute
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States